The robust speaker-adaptive speech synthesis system 'HTS-2007' can generate
the voice of any speaker. It only requires a small amount of data from each speaker
because it uses model adaptation. This means that it is now possible to create
a virtually unlimited number of different voices. What's more, the method is
almost completely automatic and can even work from existing recordings
such as speeches, movies, TV and podcasts.
This will enable new applications of text-to-speech technology.